CineMaven

Move over Eydie Haskell. Teacher's pet. I just wanna be the teacher's pet!! Let me know when class begins Ms. Cutter. Clean the blackboard for you ma'am??

I recognized some of the duality of this great film by Hitchcock...but you have mentioned many others that I totally didn't realize until reading your post. Thank you! I'm always learning thanks to the TCM Message Board. :-)

Aaaaaaah you are a genius among geniuses! By Jove I've got it. And she's one of my favorites! I got it Pancakes...d'ya think these two actresses look alike? Message was edited by: CineMaven I'm drunk with power now!

rainingviolets21-Re: Lookalikes? Posted: Jul 4, 2008 3:42 PM in response to: Bronxgirl48: "And when you do you may have a great big juicy kiss from Larry King..." Bronxgirl48 - Re: Lookalikes? Posted: Jul 4, 2008 3:46 PM in response to rainingviolets21: "I'd rather kiss a toad's behind." ...which is the same as kissing Larry King. Look Bronxgirl, why not give Larry a chance. Can't you picture him in your boudoir with nothing on but his suspenders cooing "Give Me A Little Kiss, Will Ya Hon?" in your ear?

"...her wrinkles had wrinkles." YikeS! It must be tough for those who have been in the limelight to reconcile their youthful image to the ravaged one staring at them in the mirror now. But I love my stars nonetheless. As for Larry King. He's quite the sexual antidote. (Guess I have fond memories of the kindly old man Art Linkletter was when I used to watch "Kids Say the Darnedest Things." But you've given me a good laugh.

Miss Goddess...I have a bone to pick with you!! You actually broke a promise to us. I remind you below...or you can see for yourself about ten pages back from here. Yeah...I'm going back to the year of the flood to cite my case. Have I missed something in the past six months? Is the sequence below correct? MissGoddess - Posted: Jan 24, 2008 10:07 PM in response to CineMaven: "Hopefully I will find time this weekend to watch Desert Fury and I will be sure to post here about it, CM. As for Frank, well, if that website remains up for another year or so...."[/b] FrankGrimes - Re: BURT I LOVE YOU - Posted: Jan 24, 2008 10:41 PM "Howdy, BronxieGirl -- I just wanted to second CineMaven's complimentary words. I loved your wonderfully-written commentary on Desert Fury. You sure know how to paint with words." Bronxgirl48 - Re: BURT I LOVE YOU - Posted: Jan 24, 2008 11:07 PM in response to FrankGrimes: "Thanks, Frank. I didn't know what to expect going into DESERT FURY and now it's one of my favorite noirs. Was really knocked out by Wendell Corey and Lizabeth Scott. And Mary Astor as the tough sister is superb but then she always is. This is really a cult classic." Bronxgirl -Posted: Jan 25, 2008 10:35 PM in response to MissGoddess: "I am really looking forward to your comments on DESERT FURY; I was the appetizer on it, but you'll give us the main course." Sooooooo...what have you to say for yourself??

Miss Goddess you have given me real food for thought when you write: "The movie almost asks you to decide who's view of the world is the true one...Uncle Charlie's, or the Santa Rosa family's. Both seem to willingly blind themselves to certain, balancing truths." I literally never thought of this. I was so identifying with young Charlie that I didn't even take in to account what Uncle Charlie was espousing. Now isn't that Hitchcockian fer ya...showing us two sides of a coin or making us root for the bad guy (a la Norman Bates). Good food for thought Ms. G.. Thanx!

TCM'S screening of Hitchcock fare today ("Notorious" "Shadow of a Doubt" "Psycho" "Vertigo" "The Birds" "Rear Window") is keeping me company while I clean up my messy room. I want to revisit "SHADOW OF A DOUBT" by quoting Frank Grimes' critique of it which I submit to you below. I couldn't have said it any better myself. Ha! I never do where many of you posters are concerned...love your writing: "I also like Teresa Wright's performance, although she is asked to do something differently than Joan (Fontaine in 'Rebecca.') 'Young Charlie's' emotional scale is that of a straight line. She starts high and slowly starts to go downhill. Joan's emotional scale is up and down. One minute she's happy the next fearful the next sad and disillusioned then happy and hopeful again. Where I feel Teresa's performance is at its strongest is when she is concealing her anger and fear from the family, especially her mother. Those are my favorite scenes of hers. I just love that she knows she is in danger yet still chooses to protect her mother from the truth. Young Charlie believes the truth about Uncle Charlie would 'kill'her mother. It's a very mature decision and one that almost costs her her own life." I believe Teresa does a fine job of outwardly projecting inner fear and disgust, which helps create the ever-important tension in Shadow of a Doubt."

KONWAY: "I also like Shadow of A Doubt, because of same reason. I think we are able to feel the pain Young Charlie is feeling. The tension between Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten is also incredible." I know your post is a month old, but "Shadow of a Doubt" was just on this morning and your remark is so apropos. It felt a little like sexual tension, which made me uncomfortable since they are supposed to be uncle and niece. Teresa Wright is just wonderful for me to watch.

SCSU: "Hey, what do you think this is, some kind of movie forum? Happy 4th pal o' mine." Ooops! My baad. Enjoy this holiday weekend. Drive safely, the best to your family. Oh, and watch a movie or two.

You're more considerate than Fred when he posted a horrifying recent picture of Anita Ekberg. Have your morning coffee...you'll see Art will look better to you. And speaking about lookalikes...I'm watching "Shadow of a Doubt" and Hume Cronyn reminds me of Steven Spielberg. Teresa Wright is absolutely wonderful in this film. Her transformation from a nice small-town girl, to discovering Evil in the world is mesmerizing for me to watch. And Ingrid Bergman earlier this morning in "Notorious" breaks my heart. Her waves of emotion in any one scene is exquisite to watch. Hitchcock is, indeed, the Master of filmmaking!!!!

I'll take James Bond's Aston Martin...and his Walther PPK.

Art Linkletter totally sexless? That hearty laugh and Brylcremed hair? Hmmm...you've been hanging with SCSU too long.

Hi there Miss Goddess, I jump head first into "schlock" becuz I figured they were sincerely into the filmmaking. They weren't setting out to make a poor film; it's just that the poor script, cheap sets, uneven acting et al made their films be viewed as schlock. All those type of films win my heart. But I'm loving "Notorious" and "La Chien Andalou" and "Sunset Boulevard" and "Hamlet" and the like, as well.

heh...heh. ;-)

Oh you kid!

And put out the fire with gasoline.

I BOW TO YOU MOIRA!! I humbly bow to you because reading your article on "...Janet Ames" and your Morlock blog on the great IDA LUPINO, I sincerely think you are one of the great critics on films. Both articles knocked me on my a$$ as I was reading them. (Ok...truth be told, I was already sitting on my train ride to work but had I been strap hanging...I would've fallen down!) I missed probably the last 45 minutes of the film (my vhs tape ran out) but I've always loved Rosalind Russell trying to do her serious thaaang. Reading your article made me sorry I didn't time my taping better. Your post on "...Janet Ames" was an interesting, well-written, very expressive, utterly impressive read and I think you should be published. When you referred to Lupino as a combination of "...steel and wistfulness" my jaw dropped. I still think "Essays from the Couch" is a good idea. Your writing is GREAT!!!

<LAIRD CREGAR>?? Whoa MissG. What are YOU eating before bedtime???

Your taste buds haven't lived until its tasted UTZ barbecue potato chips and Wachusetts b-b-q chips from Massachusetts.

The challenges are too hard for my feeble brain, but I LOVE the Now Playing covers you have below. Woof!! Ooomph!

Got it. You do go a long way for a joke.

MissGoddess: "I like Alligator People too!" I like that you like "Alligator People." We could be the drek girls. Naaaah. But I, like you, have an affinity for those types of films. If you haven't seen it yet, you've got to see "LEECH WOMAN." Message was edited by: CineMaven...and while I'm at it: "The Wasp Woman" too.

Bronxgirl: "The drek, oh, you shouldn't know from it....'ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS'... 'THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS'...where floating bad and good guy brains are fighting over John Agar, if you can believe ANYONE, human or alien, fighting over John Agar..." Au contraire, ma soeur. If that's drek...then I love drek. (...But wasn't crazy about "Shrek" though). I haven't seen "...Planet Arous" but I want to. John Agar was a looker back in the John Ford movie. And Shirley Temple loved him once. As for "The Alligator People" I believe I talked about that in a thread where I was lauding the great FRIEDA INESCORT. I think BEVERLY GARLAND needs a TCM night of films. Yes, many of them were schlock, drek, but I really like that stuff and her gumption for appearing in these films. Why wasn't she ever given a chance to show her chops in A-films? Day for nite shots, poor acting (need I mention Tor Johnson) and costumes. I cain't 'splain it; just a visceral thing. You write so well about films, I'll take your drek over someone else's "classic" picks. Hmmmm can we do: 26 Letters A-Z Hated Movies.

Capuchin: "(While I think that The Quiet Man and Vertigo are both good movies, I strongly suspect their high number of 'votes' is because of the dearth of competition in their letters.)" O' ye of little faith. Many like "Vertigo."